I Gotcher Incivility For Ya
by digby
I was very interested to read Kathleen Parker's latest lament about political incivility in which she admitted that incivility has always been with us but that the problem is bloggers who have the bad manners to transmit the nasty things people say to a wider audience.
I plead guilty and in the interest of spreading the bad word even more, I'd like to offer up the highly respected former Federal judge and Bush Attorney General Mike Mukasey to some of that inappropriate scrutiny:
Former Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey is one of the Republicans who has been speaking out against Holder. Last week at a Federalist Society conference, Mukasey said that holding the trial in Manhattan increased the risk of a terrorist attack on the city.
In an interview with Washington Times radio this morning, the hosts asked Mukasey about Moran’s co. Mukasey responded by suggesting that the congressman “get professional help” from Maj. Nidal Hasan:
Q: Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia says anybody that questions KSM coming to New York City for a civilian trial — that they’re un-American. What is your reaction to that?
MUKASEY: I think he’s lost touch with reality. He ought to get professional help, perhaps from Maj. Nidal.
The segment then ends with the hosts laughing over Mukasey’s “joke.”
I suppose that's better than saying he ought to be tortured, but perhaps that would have gone too far even for the man who famously said that waterboarding wasn't illegal.
I guess I just don't see how anyone can talk about "incivility" when the government tortures people with impunity. Seems kind of beside the point to me. So, let them joke away about terrorism and mass murder and quake in their boots about a potential terrorist attack --- at the site of worst terrorist attack in American history. They are gibbering jerks, all of them.
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